Re: hotpoint card readers and hardware key
The Card reader is straight forward to use and fairly useful (although I don’t need it that often thanks to EMW).
The hardware key is a bit of a waste of time unless you have the Hotpoints software (I Don’t and it isn’t available to the independents as far as I know) – all it tells you is what the current error being displayed is in alpha-numerics (the machine will still tell you on the front display in the usual ways) and you can put units into auto test mode which you can usually replicate with careful program choice – I have almost never used mine and I don’t think it does any more than that though I wait to be proved wrong.
Jem